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S. G. DERHAM.

FILTERING FABRIC.

Patented Feb. 23, 1886.

(No Model.)

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WITNESSES:

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE..

SAMUEL G. DERHAM, OF NEV YORK, ASSIGNOR TO CARL P, LENK, OF

BROOKLYN, N. Y.

FILTERING FABRIC.

SIECIFICA'TION forming part of Letters Patent No. 336.799, datedFebruary 23. 1886.

Application filed December 18, 1885. Serial No. 166,108.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL G. DERHAM, of the city, county, and State ofNew York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in FilteringFabrics, of which the following is a specification.

rIhis invention relates to an improved filtering fabric that can bereadily made up into bags for filtering liquids of all kinds, or used asa filtering body in filtering apparatus of all kinds; and the inventionconsists of a filtering fabric made of a number of layers ofblotting-paper and of covering layers of flannel or other suitabletextile fabric, the layers of paper and fabric being stitched togetherover the entire face of the filtering fabric.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l represents a front View of myimproved filtering fabric; and Fig. 2 a longitudinal section of the sameon line x m, Fig. l.

Similar letters of reference indicate corre spending parts.

Referring to the drawings, a a represents a number of layers of thickfiltering or blotting paper. or other suitable textile fabric, which areunited to the intermediate layers of filtering paper by intersectinglines of stitches ci d, as

b Z) are the covering-layers, of flannel (No model.)

shown in Figs. 1 and 2. The stitches bind the material composing thefiltering fabric firmly 3o As an improved article of manufacture, a

filtering fabric formed of intermediate layers of filtering or blottingpaper and layers of textile fabric united by stitches over the entireface of the fabric, substantially as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed myname in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

SAML. G. DERHAM.

Vitnesses:

PAUL GoEPEL, MARTIN PETRY.

